"Be a light in the dark!"
BASICS
NAME: Sam'in, Born Samaina, nicknames Sam or Sami
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Pretty people?
BIRTHDATE: Late Summer, 2753
AGE: 21 as of 2774
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Bluerider!
WING: Daylight!
APPEARANCE
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Dark brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'7, athletic
PLAY-BY: Lady Hayakawa (Samurai Warriors)
EXPY SOURCE: N/A
FULL APPEARANCE: Sam'in is a young woman of about average height, with the lean, athletic build of someone who never stops moving for very long. She has dark brown hair, kept long, and clear light blue eyes, which she considers her best feature. Her forehead is a little higher than she'd like, but she's not self-conscious enough about it to start wearing bangs to cover it. Like many riders, she is most often seen in her riding leathers, but in her off-time, she prefers clothes that are comfortable, but pretty. She doesn't mind skirts or pants, but avoids overly fussy dresses except for gathers and feasts. Used to the colder temperatures of Telgar, she dresses more lightly than most Fortians, finding even Fortian winters pretty mild.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: Sam'in is an enthusiastic and energetic young woman, who believes live should be lived with exclamation points. She is generally very happy and cheerful. After all, she's a dragonrider! And in her mind- there's no better job on all of Pern. She gets to fly and protect the world! She sees dragonriders as heroic figures and does her best to live up to the role. She can still be a bit naive about the less savory aspects of weyr life. She's friendly and kind, even if she's not always the most thoughtful of people. She is not really much of one for subtlety and subtext may fly over her head, but she is good-hearted enough she's rarely accidentally cruel. Sam'in is not very good at making decisions and is prone to dithering too long and ultimately choosing for pretty arbitrary reasons.
Sam'in loves music and insists she is very good at it, citing to the many harpers in her line and describing herself as a "musical artist." At every possible occasion, she offers to sing, usually songs she wrote herself. She could have been a harper apprentice, after all, if she hadn't become a dragonrider! She is not, in fact, an even passable musician. She is very tone-deaf. She believes anyone who tries to tell her the truth is just jealous of her talents.
Sam'in enjoys ridiculous rumors. She finds them highly amusing and often works them into her original songs. She's a little bit too logical to believe most of them, but the sheer implausibility of them is her favorite part. Conspiracies are more fun when no reasonable person could possibly think they're true. Sometimes, she'll poke holes in them, more for the fun of the debate than anything else, and other times, she'll play along, even if she knows better, because wouldn't it be great if it was true and what's the harm of living like it was, for a little while?
HISTORY
FAMILY:
Mother: Ahokah of Blue Anonoth
Father: Willusiam, Harper
Older Brother: Mulder of White Gyoshith
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Music! (N/A)
BIRTHPLACE: Telgar Weyr
HISTORY:
Samaina was the second child and only daughter of a dragonrider and a Harper. On her father's side, she was the latest scion of a long line of scholars. Her mother's family had an equally long history of being dragonriders. Growing up, Samaina frequently went back and forth on which path she wanted to follow. Music was great. But also dragons! Decisions were hard.
Like most weyrchildren with busy parents, Samaina grew up in the creche, alongside her brother, Mulder. The siblings sometimes fought, but Samaina never held any hard feelings and always adored and looked up to Mulder. He was a scribe, which clearly meant he knew almost everything. She missed him when he transferred to Harper Hall, to learn even more.
But life moved on and eventually Samaina was old enough to apprentice herself. Having never come up with an answer to "what she wanted to be when she grew up," she decided to do both. She'd apprentice as a harper and then stand as a candidate when she was old enough and the dragons could decide which she should be for her!
When Samaina demonstrated her musical abilities for the weyr's harpers, they winced and very kindly told her that she would make an excellent dragonrider and they didn't want to distract her from her coming candidacy.
Samaina, always a fairly guileless child, believed them. She guessed that was her answer! She was going to be a great rider, wasn't she? She continued writing music and growing as a musical artist in her free time and entered candidacy as soon as she turned fifteen.
She Impressed quickly, at the first small garnet clutch she stood for, to a blue named Salineath who literally glowed in the dark. Which was awesome. Sure, he could be a little mean sometimes and like all dragons was incapable of understanding good music when he heard it, but he always came through for her when it counted. Samiana elided her name to Sam'in, in honor of the match.
A few turns later, she learned that Mulder had been Searched and Impressed at Fort Weyr. Excited by the possibility of fighting side by side with her brother, but also nervous about leaving home, she wavered for another two turns before deciding to join him at Fort after all.
Onward to the next adventure!
